KUHN RIKON is an illustrious Swiss company that has developed and produced equipment for private homes as well as professional kitchens for more than 70 years. Developments really gathered momentum around 1950 with the introduction of the famous Duramatic pressure cooker. For many years, KUHN RIKON was synonymous with this pressure cooker. Today, KUHN RIKON has three main product lines: Pressure cookers, speciality cookware and cook’s tools. The products offered in all lines are clever products of a very high quality.

For additional information, see www.kuhnrikon.com.

To the illustrious Swiss company KUHN RIKON, it has become good business to set the bar high for the degreasing process in production. As a world renowned brand in cookware, consciousness about the environmental aspects of the production process is important to the company. At the same time, they had long looked for a degreaser for both bright and matt steel which was more efficient than their existing degreaser.

The solution was DST-DEGREEZ/9.

They had used washing temperatures above 80°C on the large ROLL washing plants. The high temperatures meant very rapid vaporization involving frequent water changes and massive water consumption. This also meant very high energy consumption and a poor working environment as a result of exhaust, high temperatures and high emissions. The temperature could be reduced to 42-44°C with DST-DEGREEZ® and the washing result was significantly improved. The previous bath lives of 4-6 weeks and huge water consumption for refills have now been replaced by bath lives exceeding 12 months. The obvious result is a greatly improved production flow with fewer stoppages and faster lead times. With the change to DST-DEGREEZ®, they were also able to replace the two circulation pumps of 15kW each by 2 pumps of 2.2kW each as a result of the vastly improved washing result. The total economic saving in power consumption alone amounts to more than CHF 40,000 CHF (€ 27,000) annually. Add to this a sharp reduction in the quantity of waste water to be deposited, a vastly improved working environment and significantly improved degreasing results.

Stephan Kramer

Head of Engineering, Germany

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